SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S EREADER PROJECT Check out eReaders!

SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S EREADER

PROJECT

Check out eReaders!

Michael Stern Hart (1947-2011)

Founder of Project Gutenberg and inventor of the eBook

Photo credit and obituary: http://worldlibrary.net/blog/post/2011/09/08/In-loving-memory-of-Michael-S-Hart-(1947-2011).aspx

Thank you for supporting this project!

Denise Davis, Deputy Library Director

Amy Calhoun, Electronic Resources Librarian

Megan Wong, Technology Librarian

Manya Shorr, Outreach & Community Services

Joseph Spink, Library Services Assistant

WHAT'S THE DEAL?

Digital divide

eBook interest on the rise

Ease (or difficulty) of use

SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY

• 1.4 million residents

• 28 locations (1 bookmobile)

• $3 million collection budget (falling fast)

• Subscribe to Overdrive (3,500 eBooks)

• Weekly Book a Librarian appointments for eReader help (200 people in 12 months)

THE GRANT (OR, FREE MONEY IS NEVER FREE)

$100,000 LSTA

Partnership

Preloaded

Assessment

HOWDY, PARTNER

THE COLLECTIO

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Devices & ContentProgram Launch: April

2011

• 108 Classic Nooks - Circulating

• 30 Classic Nooks – Staff Training

• 20 titles / device

September 2011

• 306 Nooks - Circulating

• 168 Nook Touch

• 138 Nook Classic

• 10 Nook Touch -Replacements

• 50 titles / device

6 NOOKS : 1 TITLE

Fiction

Biography

Mystery

Science Fiction

NonfictionLucky

Day

Romance

Children & Teen

SpanishBestsellers

Urban Fiction

TITLE SELCTIONTitle Author Notes

BestsellerThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Larsson, Stieg Millenium TrilogyA Red Herring Without Mustard Bradley, Alan Flavia de Luce Series 9th Judgment Patterson, James Women's Murder Club

ContemporaryPort Mortuary Cornwell, PatriciaTell No One Coben, HarlanNaked Heat Castle, Richard Nikki Heat SeriesThe Long Fall Mosley, Walter

CozyDeath of a Chimney Sweep Beaton, M.C.A Great Deliverance George, ElizabethStill Life Penny, Louise Aramand Gamache series

HistoricalThe Alienist Carr, CalebMedicus Downie, RuthWilliam Monk Mysteries: The First Three Novels Perry, AnneWhat Angels Fear Harris, C.S. Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries

ParanormalDead in the Family Harris, Charlaine Sookie Stackhouse series

ThrillerThe Bride Collector Dekker, TedThe Devotion of Suspect X Higashino, Keigo

Genre Holds 4/18/11

(launch week, 108 Nooks)

Holds 8/22/2011

(final week, 245 Nooks)

Holds:Nookratio

Best Seller 78 248 7.1

Biography 21 90 5.0

Children 19 144 8.0

Fiction 48 192 10.7

Mystery 47 111 4.6

Nonfiction 29 181 10.1

Romance 16 106 8.8

Science Fiction 25 120 6.7

Spanish 6 13 2.2

Teen 20 140 11.7

Urban Fiction 12 71 11.8

Total 321 1416 5.8

STAFF TRAINING & CIRCULATION

Staff Training•All front line staff trained

•6 training sessions /6 different locations

•Circulation procedures

•Basic Nook functions

•Branch Nooks for staff

•Point person for staff questions

•Accessible information

Circulation•Pre-circulation issues  

• Security 

• Forms 

• Check-out period 

• Renewals

• Damage   

• Late fees

• Special rules

Troubleshooting•Broken Nooks

•Transporting devices

•Navigating classic Nook user interface

•“Frozen” Nooks: factory reset or user error?

•Issues with the devices

•Touch v. Classic

ASSESSMENT

Surveys

InterviewsFocus

groups

Public Comments• I was excited to be able to try it. I've been wanting to try an e-

reader, but didn't want to commit to buying one without seeing how they actually work. Thanks for making it available.

 • I was dead set against buying an e-reader, but trying it out through you guys make me really want one now! Also, I really

wish I could load things to the e-reader...you guys, should think about a graphic novel one.

 • The nook is very convenient because it has more than one

story in it. There's no need to get a bag for 20 different books, and its much easier to keep up with one item.

 • Due to replacement cost of $250 should something happen to

the nook I am very hesitant to borrow one from the library again. I have an iPad and will explore eBooks for that instead.

 • Such a long wait time. Make more available.

(More comments will be available in the final report.)

WHAT'S NEXT?

We own the content/archivi

ng

The refresh challenge

Serving special

populations

User driven content

Legacy devices

Policies & procedures

Final report to the California State Library: http://www.saclibrary.org/ereader

(available soon!)

Please contact us with questions!

Denise Davis, Deputy Library [email protected]

Amy Calhoun, Electronic Resources [email protected]

Megan Wong, Technology [email protected]

Manya Shorr, Outreach & Community Services [email protected]

Joseph Spink, Library Services [email protected]